Itisnotmypurposetoattemptarealautobiographyorstoryofmy life.Isimplywanttotellthestoryofmynumerousexperimentswith truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, the
story will take the shape of an autobiography.
My experiments in the political field are now known. But I should certainly like
to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself,
and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in
the political field. The experiments I am about to relate are
spiritual, or rathermoral;fortheessenceofreligionismorality.

Only those matters of religion that can be understood as much by children as
by older people, will be included in this story. If I can narrate
theminadispassionateandhumblespiritmanyotherexperimentswill...obtainfromthemhelpintheironwardmarch.